Delaware House Bill 131 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on August 16 2011 - 100% progression
Action: 2011-08-16 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act simplifies the formula devised in 1984 that is used to distribute more than $4 million in annual public library standards funds to Delaware’s 33 public libraries. The purpose of public library standards funding is to enable every public library in the State to evolve and to meet a minimum threshold of service. Inadvertently, the structure of the current formula has caused an ever-increasing percentage of appropriated funds to be allocated based on local public library spending with fewer and fewer dollars allocated based on service population, as originally intended. This Act would ensure that future allocations will remain balanced between local spending and population served and will significantly reduce annual volatility in allocations among all public libraries. Specifically, the Act requires that 40% of funds be distributed based on service population and 40% of funds be distributed based on local spending. Current law allows the Division of Libraries to use the remaining 20% of funds for library planning and evaluation and for countywide and statewide library services. This Act reduces the retention amount to 10% and provides that the remaining 10% go directly to individual public libraries to fund countywide or regional public library services provided by anchor public libraries and to fund individualized plans for each public library or public library system to improve library collections, staffing or other priorities.

An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Libraries.

Rep. George [?]

Sen. Bethany Hall-Long [D]

2011-07-01 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-06-16 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-08-16		Signed by Governor
2011-07-01		Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2011-07-01		Necessary rules are suspended in Senate
2011-06-23		Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate
2011-06-16		Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 38 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2011-06-08		Reported Out of Committee (HOUSE ADMINISTRATION) in House with 5 On Its Merits
2011-05-26		Introduced and Assigned to House Administration Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/370fc62866d7f3908525788e0068266c?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+131/$file/legis.html?open
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/f1bc68f09d48586f852578b1007585ef?OpenDocument
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/11b3b86977523203852578c000167005?OpenDocument